Google Tests Displaying Line Separators Between Organic Results?
Nicole Hess caught Google testing using a line separator in the search results between organic results. She posted a screen shot on Twitter and it does look legit…
Google Adds Carousel Results Within The Snippet Level & Suggests Using Articles Rich Snippets
Google announced they are adding carousel based search results at the snippet level. So if you search for something and Google feels more content from that source is warranted, instead of showing more search results listed below…
GoogleBot Crawling Too Hard & Much? Report The Issue To Google.
Normally, Google’s crawlers named GoogleBot, is pretty well behaved. It normally is pretty good at making sure it doesn’t harm your site by crawling too fast or too much.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 20, 2015
This week in search, I cover how Google said you should avoid doing any link building. Some SEOs are waiting patiently…
Lunar New Year Google Logo Shows A Sheep, Ram Or Goat?
The Google logo on many of the Google home pages is to celebrate the Lunar New Year. It is the first day of a secular, sacred or other year whose months are coordinated by the cycles of the moon. It is also the Chinese New Year…
Google “This Site May Be Hacked” Mass Warnings This Morning
As I visited the Google Webmaster Help forums, like I do a few times a day…
Google Added Over 200 Features To AdWords In Past Year, Keep Track Of Them Here
Google has launched a new page in the AdWords help center that helps advertisers keep track of what has changed, feature-wise, with the AdWords platform. The new page can be found over here…
Google News Trending Topics Feature Disappears
The image on the right shows how Google News would typically show “trending topics” on the left hand news filter bar. But that no longer shows up on the left bar, instead you just see the general categories of news such as World, U.S…
Google Tests A Search Algorithm Update Yesterday Morning & Revert Back?
It seems Google may have tested a search algorithm update yesterday late morning and then may have pulled it back.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has chatter from the SEO community around the update but the chatter soon died down after things settl…
Searcher: Google’s Alessandro Volta Logo May Cause Seizures
If you didn’t visit Google’s home page today, you are missing out on the Alessandro Volta Doodle. Alessandro Volta invented the battery and the Google logo is a bit electric…
Google News Title Tags & H1 Tags Should Be Consistent For Ranking
Yesterday Google News Stacie Chan and Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller hosted a Google News Publisher hangout on Google+, which was filled with great information…
Google Honors Alessandro Volta, The Inventory Of The Battery, On His 270th Birthday
Today on the Google home page throughout all Google properties worldwide is a Google Doodle, aka Google logo, remembering the life of Alessandro Volta on his 270th Birthday…
Google News Sitemap Index Count Not Accurate
Google has told us time and time again that using the site command in Google web search will not give you the accurate count of pages Google has indexed for your web site, that instead…
Facebook Product Ads
Facebook announced a new ad format yesterday called Product Ads.
Product Ads let e-commerce sites promote their products directly in Facebook. Merchants can upload their product catalog and create campaigns targeting certain products to specific audie…
No Google Panda Update In Over Four Months
It seems like Webmasters and SEOs are getting restless again, this time with the Panda update or lack there of.
The last time webmasters had an official Google Panda update was on September 25, 2014, Google Panda 4.1…
Data Returning To Google Webmaster Tools & Google Analytics
Two of our marketing and webmaster data sources from Google had issues last week. Google Webmaster Tools data stopped updating and a whole day disappeared in Google Analytics…
Google Tips On Fixing A Site That Was Hijacked
Imagine you wake up one morning and find your site that pays your mortgage, supports your family and the families of your employees have been hijacked by Chinese hackers. That would be scary.
That happened to ShadesDaddy.com, a site that sells sungla…
Google: You Can’t Redirect A Penalty To An Existing Site But Maybe To A Site Move
We’ve covered the topic of penalty redirection several times in these three different stories – at least. But it was brought back up again in the Friday Google+ hangout and I was going to skip it…
Google Webmaster Tools International Targeting Reports A Month Behind
We reported this morning that Google’s search query reports in Webmaster Tools is returning to normal and the data is being populated now.
But the international targeting report is almost 30-days delayed now. The first time I saw this reported was in…
Google: The Submit To Index Feature Is For Critical Cases
In Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option to fetch and render as GoogleBot would crawl your pages. After the page has been fetched…